When the training ship for the Mexican Navy hit the Brooklyn Bridge, I think it was the first time that most people in the US had heard about Navy’s having Tall Ships for training their new, young officers and crew.
I had seen the Tall Ships in Europe multiple times, mostly at Kiel (northerner Germany where the German Navy used to have it’s Naval Medicine Institute. Among other things, decompression chambers are a good thing to have easily accessible in major ports.
We were surprised this morning to heard drums. I looked out the floor to ceiling “windows” in the observation deck to see a Tall Ship (4 master) being maneuvered by two tugs into a docking space directly opposite of us on the pier.
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the photo isn’t all that great, but consider this is what we saw from Deck 15….
There was pomp, there was Panama Navy Band playing them in. There were senior officers standing there to great the incoming ship. From Peru as it turns out.
But look closer – there are seamen standing along all of the cross bars on the masts. They came down after the ceremonies were over….
